Guo Rugui is about to say goodbye, Tao Mingzhang's words in his heart are not unhappy, he is not scheming, and he has some emotions, and he feels that since it is the truth, he is not afraid to say it. Of course, he has been communicating with Guo Rugui for a long time these days, and he talks about almost everything, which makes him feel that this person can be trusted. Guo took the initiative to mention the perverse behavior of the Nationalist army in Henan on several occasions, and also talked about the bombing of Hankou, which was occupied by the Japanese invaders, two months ago, without any regard for the lives of the Chinese. This made Tao Mingzhang feel more deeply that this person was not only reliable, but also kind. What he hated most was the arguments that China could use this victory to enter the ranks of the great powers. He felt that the person who said such things was either pretending to be stupid or really stupid.

"Mingzhang, before I leave, there is one more word."

"Sir, please."

"Now, although Zheng Dongguo went to Liduo to form a new army, there are still many members of the Three Youth Association in your troops here, although these young people are also bent on resisting Japan, but they advocate more leaders and do not think about the people, and their thoughts may not be the same as yours, so my brother must know that if you say more, you will lose."

"What the chief reminds me is that the pavilion chief is deliberately asking me to bring a group of young officers, so I will naturally be careful."

"It seems that Pavilion Chief Chu is also well-intentioned?"

"You say our master has good intentions?"

"Oh, don't mention this, there is another thing that I forgot to mention the other day," Guo Rugui diverted the topic, "Chu Shi is right to enter Burma and rely on the Chinese, but you should also pay attention to the local armed forces. ”

"The local armed forces either listened to the British or voted for the Japanese, and we could only rely on the Chinese."

"This is a mistake, Japan is eager to turn Burma into a war base, Iida was still pretending to be there, Kimura has already shown his true colors when he came to power, I think the forces of the Burmese Independence Army will be divided, and all forces that can be united should be united."

"Where can it be divided?" Tao Mingzhang shook his head, he walked through the Savage Mountain, knowing that the Independence Army was all Japanese lackeys.

"The Chinese have a deep base in northern Myanmar, but when you get to Lower Burma, you still have to rely on the locals, so I'll put my words here first, and you can control it yourself when the time comes...... It's not early, I'll go back first. ”

Tao Mingzhang saluted, watched Guo Rugui get into the plane, turned around and beckoned to him.

The two parted ways, and Tao Mingzhang returned to the army, he had no combat mission and was ready to accept the job of training recruits. At present, there are about 10,000 soldiers in the 200th Division who can fight, and a large number of recruits are waiting for weapons, but the training cannot be left behind.

This work means that among the grassroots cadres of the New Fifth Army in the future, there will be many people who recognize Tao Mingzhang as a superior. Zhou Youfu naturally has no interest in doing this, of course, it is impossible for Chu Tingchang to let him bring new soldiers, his own intention is to let Tao Mingzhang consolidate the foundation in the army, as Guo Rugui said, he is actually well-intentioned, but Tao Mingzhang has not felt it yet.

Chief Chu Ting set up his headquarters 50 kilometers southeast of Chittagong. He could now only obtain information from his own advance team and the reconnaissance of the British and American air forces, and of course he knew that none of this information was necessarily reliable and timely. In jungle areas, the reconnaissance role of aircraft will be minimized. This requires more intriguing. Essentially, this was his first hands-free operation after breaking away from the 419 intelligence advantage. Of course, he was not completely detached, he had a very accurate synthetic aperture radar mapping map, which was not available in the Allied command, and even more so than the Japanese could have imagined, which was one of the reasons why he dared to drive his tank into the jungle. This area is surrounded by mountains to the east, and there is a corridor along the coast, which is considered a plain, and the Japanese army will inevitably go from here first, and then go back over the mountains. He hoped that with the speed of the tanks and the road opened up by the second division, he would rush to the front of the follow-up Japanese army to block the attack, which had already been selected first, and it was several valleys, and the commander of the Chuanyue Division had no choice, so he would inevitably take one of them. However, the tank is quite fuel-consuming to travel through the forest, and how to replenish it in the air is still on paper, and needs to wait for the test of practice.

His paper plan, of course, drew on later history, and asked the British and American air forces to throw * to the designated lots, so that the primeval jungle could be burned into a number of open spaces to facilitate the airdrop of supplies, and the second request was to burn the jungle into a long strip so that the Japanese could not get around, and it was also convenient for the air force to see the Japanese marching columns from the air.

This proposal was very new, and it was clearly one of the ways to deal with jungle warfare with air superiority, and if it were to be achieved, it would certainly be a surprise victory, because the Japanese believed that jungle areas could contain the Allied air forces. Their own air force did not bargain for anything when it pursued northern Burma.

If the Allies had defoliant or coagulation*, he would have asked for it, but at the moment there was only one M50* in the list of ammunition that Stilwell could provide, which was good, but it used magnesium powder instead of gasoline as fuel, because of the use of metal materials, even the US military was reluctant to use it in large quantities. However, when Chu Tingchang always appeared in a new enemy situation, he gave a surprising idea that surprised the Americans (this * was originally designed to bomb the warehouse). Stilwell was determined to give it a try at all costs.

The day after the start of the offensive, American light bombers and some transport planes dropped this tube* in succession in the areas where the enemy would inevitably pass. These several kilograms* differed from the heavy M69-type solidification* of later generations, and were densely dispersed from the air, with the air flow increasing* of band-like dispersion. Quickly setting the forest on fire and burning it like a bald sore, these actions immediately caused panic among the nearby Japanese troops.

After the commander of the Funakoshi Division took his troops to hide in the forest, he divided the troops into squadrons and brigades, and carried them out separately to avoid crowding the roads and increase the speed of the march. He delegated command to the officers of the columns, reduced the division headquarters to the size of a squadron, and fled together to a common destination, and no longer exercised command. He believed that this would be a good way to deal with the enemy's reconnaissance and avoid the mistake of the second division being concentrated and annihilating the divisional headquarters. But he found that the enemy's air force was dropping bombs in front of him, and it did not seem to be *, and he saw with his own eyes that the long, fluttering pipe fell, and then burned into a fire. The plan of retreat that he had drawn up to break up was greatly disrupted by this new tactic, not so much because the American reconnaissance planes were able to see what was going on in the bare glades below, but because the Japanese columns were forced to avoid these burning areas, thus destroying the idea of diversifying the troops' marching routes. The last few Japanese troops crowded together again, and the road became muddy and the speed was greatly reduced.

Chu Tingchang calculated the enemy's whereabouts in the rear, so as to make it easier to select the most important blocking position in several mountain passes and avoid the equal distribution of troops.

His tanks quickly seized the path that the 2nd Division had slipped through the woods with machetes, had already rushed ahead of the enemy's 31st Division, and then rampaged through the jungle to clear a road, and the first step was achieved. Now that it was time to test the Allied airdrop, he was quite nervous, for fear that something would go wrong, so why bother's tanks and half-tracks arrived in the designated area, found the burned out, about half a square kilometer of glade, launched*, and waited for air supplies. It is estimated that the Japanese advance has also reached this area, and if the airdrop supply fails, it will be in a melee in an unfavorable area.

U.S. planes passed over and threw gasoline barrels down from the cabin door. Funakoshi, who was secretly marching not far away, happened to see this scene - hundreds of oil drums with parachutes and more white pockets without parachutes were thrown down from the plane, and he suddenly had a heartfelt fear, not that he would be killed, but that Japan might lose the war. This kind of indiscriminate supply means that the enemy's logistics are abundant.

The 15th Army had also conceived such a supply, but in the end it was considered completely whimsical, not to mention how valuable the planes were, and how much precious food could not be collected simply by throwing them into the woods, which made most of the officers feel that it was not feasible. The Japanese have been taught since childhood that all the rice in their rice bowls must be eaten clean, and the excess metal must be handed over to the state*, and such nonsense cannot be accepted at all.

He Bisheng complained to Chu Tingchang through the radio, saying that the rice bags airdropped by the Americans were not strong, all of them were broken, and they were scattered everywhere, and there was no way to collect them, and there was no way to eat the broken biscuits, and if they were thrown like this, they would probably be picked up by the nearby Japanese Misan. On the bright side, gasoline hung on a parachute, and enough base was collected.

Before Chu Tingchang could reply, the troops encountered the nearby Japanese army. The Japanese army was originally in the shadows and could go around, but they couldn't help but want to grab some food, but they were bumped into by Chinese patrols wandering in the woods, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides. Chinese tanks and half-tracks immediately ran over the bushes to support, and the Japanese retreated and disappeared into the jungle. They also couldn't figure it out, in just two days, they lost hundreds of horses, while the enemy was able to walk tanks in the forest.

He Bisheng reported the encounter to Chu Tingchang, killing dozens of enemies and losing several of his brothers. Chief Chu ordered him not to entangle with the enemy, quickly rush to the front, and establish the first line of resistance.

Why bother to win the order to maneuver quickly and leave the enemy behind. His tanks waited in front of the river to swim in the dry season before heavy rains every afternoon, and then continued their march to await a second resupply. Not only did they march mechanized, but they also carried a large number of heavy weapons. At this time, the Japanese troops who were following closely behind were forced to start blowing up the artillery because of the death of a large number of pack horses, keeping only mortars and heavy machine guns, they could see the messy track marks in the jungle, and knew that the enemy had run to the front, and sooner or later there would be an encounter, but there was no other way, because the road had to be staggered with the 2nd Division. The only good thing is that you can pick up some food by following this enemy army. Rice from bags of rice that had been thrown from the air and scraped by branches were scattered everywhere. It took a lot of effort to collect the rice, and before they had time to think about whether the enemy might poison them, they grabbed a handful of them and stuffed them into their mouths. When they went out of the city, they divided the three-day ration into ten portions and demanded that they hold out for ten days. Funakoshi hastily calculated that at most, only 10% of the rice thrown by the enemy was picked up by themselves, which shows how abundant their supplies were.